AN AMERICAN TRADITION with its own fanbase, Spirit Halloween is a chain of stores that take over vacant retail spaces in the run-up to October. But this year they’re breaking out and bringing the screams to screens with their very first film.
Spirit Halloween: The Movie sees three teenagers spend the night of 31 October inside the store – but they’re not alone… The restless spirit (see what they did there?) of town meanie Alec Windsor (Christopher Lloyd) is determined to find his way back to mortal soil!
Director David Poag sat down to talk through animatronic troubles and cinematic inspirations.
